Halo: Combat Evolved (2001 Video Game)

Tim Dadabo: 343 Guilty Spark

Quotes 

• Cortana : I've spent the last 12 hours cooped up in here watching you toady about, helping that thing get set to slit our throats!

  The Master Chief : Hold on, now. He's a friend.

  Cortana : [sarcastically]  Oh! I didn't realize. He's your pal, is he? Your chum? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THAT BASTARD ALMOST MADE YOU DO?

  The Master Chief : Yes. Activate Halo's defenses and destroy the Flood. Which is why we brought the Index to the control center.

  Cortana : [holds up the Index]  You mean this?

  343 Guilty Spark : A construct? In the core? That is absolutely unacceptable!

  Cortana : Sod off!

  343 Guilty Spark : What impertinence! I shall purge you at once.

  Cortana : You sure that's a good idea?

  [the Index vanishes from her hand] 

  343 Guilty Spark : How... How dare you! I'll...

  Cortana : Do what? I have the Index. You can just float and sputter!

  The Master Chief : Enough!

  [turns to Cortana] 

  The Master Chief : The Flood is spreading. If we activate Halo's defenses, we can wipe them out.

  Cortana : You have no idea how this ring works, do you? Why the Forerunners built it? Halo doesn't kill Flood, it kills their food! Humans, Covenant, whatever. We're all equally edible. The only way to stop the Flood is to starve them to death. And that's exactly what Halo is designed to do: wipe the galaxy clean of all sentient life. You don't believe me? Ask him!

  The Master Chief : [turns to the Monitor]  Is it true?

  343 Guilty Spark : More or less. Technically, this installation's pulse has a maximum effective radius of 25,000 light years. But once the others follow suit, this galaxy will be quite devoid of life, or at least any life with sufficient biomass to sustain the Flood. But you already knew that. I mean... how couldn't you?

  Cortana : Left out that little detail, did he?

  343 Guilty Spark : [to the Chief]  We have followed outbreak containment procedure to the letter. You were with me each step of the way as we managed this crisis.

  Cortana : [puts her hand to her head]  Chief, I'm picking up movement.

  343 Guilty Spark : Why would you hesitate to do what you have already done?

  Cortana : We need to go. Right now!

  343 Guilty Spark : Last time you asked me, if it were my choice, would I do it? Having had considerable time to ponder your query, my answer has not changed. There is no choice. We must activate the ring.

  [four Sentinels appear behind the Monitor] 

  Cortana : [to the Chief]  Get... us... out of here!

  343 Guilty Spark : If you are unwilling to help, I will simply find another. Still, I must have the Index. Give your construct to me, or I will be forced to take her from you.

  The Master Chief : [raises his weapon]  That's not going to happen.

  343 Guilty Spark : So be it.

  [to the Sentinels] 

  343 Guilty Spark : Save his head, dispose of the rest.

• 343 Guilty Spark : Greetings. I am the Monitor of Installation Zero Four. I am 343 Guilty Spark. Someone has released the Flood. My function is to prevent it from leaving this installation. But I require your assistance.

• 343 Guilty Spark : Why naturally the Flood is simply too dangerous to release, and mass sterilization protocols may again need to be enacted. Of course, samples were kept here after the last catastrophic outbreak... for study. It seems... that decision may have been an error.

• 343 Guilty Spark : I am a genius. Hee hee hee!

• 343 Guilty Spark : It is curious that you brought such ineffective weapons to combat the Flood, despite the containment protocols.

• 343 Guilty Spark : These Sentinels will supplement your combat system. But I suggest you upgrade to at least a Class Twelve combat skin. Your current model only scans as a Class Two, which is ill-suited for this kind of work.

• 343 Guilty Spark : The installation was specifically built to study and contain the Flood. Their survival as a race was dependent upon it. I am grateful to see that some of them survived to reproduce.

• 343 Guilty Spark : [after hitting 343 Guilty Spark with your gun]  We have much more important things to do.

• 343 Guilty Spark : You can see how the body's been transformed by the genetic restructuring of the Flood infection. The small creatures carry spores that cause a host to mutate. The mutated host then produces spores that can pass the Flood to others. It is insidious and elegant. As long as any hosts remain, the Flood is virulent.

• 343 Guilty Spark : [after clubing 343 Guilty Spark with your gun]  Are you finished yet?

• 343 Guilty Spark : [after smacking 343 Guilty Spark with your gun]  Please control your temper.

• 343 Guilty Spark : [after hitting 343 Guilty Spark with your gun]  Please stop marring your weapon.

• 343 Guilty Spark : [after meleeing 343 Guilty Spark with your gun]  Please stop being human.